'The Wannabe': Nick Sandow's Farewell to Old New York

April 24, 2015 1:32 AM

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Actors make their living being other people. Even while they channel all their personal experiences into a role, if they do their job well, an actor will somehow hide behind another name, another face, in the story of someone else's life. Actor/Director Nick Sandow (Orange is The New Black), with more than 60 film and television acting credits to his name, has one of those faces you've seen before, but that you don't quite know where to place, which is to say he has excelled at his job.

But as I talk to him about his second feature film as a director, The Wannabe, it seems to me that writing a character and directing someone else playing his life hits a little closer to home for this artist.